Ba Than (surgeon)
…140 km (87 mi) northeast of Yangon (Rangoon), in what was then British Burma. His parents were apparently well-to-do as he graduated from Rangoon's St. Paul's English High School, went to Rangoon College in 1914, and went on to study medicine at the University of Calcutta where he received an MB in 1922. (Burma's first MBBS…